Getting-it-built workshop

The Roadmap to Your Cohousing Community

The Getting-It-Built (GIB) Workshop provides future residents with a comprehensive understanding of the development process and empowers them to take active roles in making key decisions at every stage. The goal is not only to teach but to build a sense of ownership and collaboration among all participants, ensuring the project reflects the collective vision and values of the future community.

The Getting-It-Built Workshop is the first step in transforming future residents from interested participants into active co-developers of their own cohousing community. This hands-on, immersive workshop equips attendees with the tools, knowledge, and confidence needed to take ownership of the development process, from initial concept to construction. This workshop is a customized project-based process lead by Charles Durrett. The Getting-It-Built workshop can be done with or without an established site.

More cohousing communities in North America have been successfully launched by this workshop than by any other means. It provides focus to your group’s time and energy, and aids in moving a project past initial feasibility to getting the required commitment and buy-in from a group of community members, investors, project developers and other professionals. This is an efficient and necessary step for the integration of the project budget and financing, the design and development, and the community building and sales required for a successful cohousing project.

Over the course of the workshop, participants will learn a step-by-step, month-by-month roadmap for how to bring their cohousing project to life. Facilitated by experienced developers and cohousing experts, the workshop breaks down the development process into manageable stages and provides a clear and deliberate plan for each phase.